The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-11-19

their Office at the old stand near ArcanS
Hall, aug'u
Remember the firemen's ball Thanksgiving
night.
The Dacotah is loading at ST. Louis Tor
Vicksburg.
Miss Neltie Clemmens will play at the C..
F c.. concert Tuesday night.
Don't miss the C. F. C. concert Tuesday
night at Hagen's opera house.
A new pavement and drainage pipe has
been laid west of W. S. Clagett's store.
The case of the state vs.. Lewis Coates for
desertion of his wife was yesterday dis
missed.
The Woody quartet is not wooden, remem'
Der. 1t is as lively as q cricket and as tulio OF
melody as can be.
Mr.. Leonldas Duyall, of Ray county. adj
yertfses some very fine jacks for sale IN this
paper. Stock men cannot do better than TO
secure animals from his stables.
Col. Elijah H.. McGufin. an employe
Of the Missouri Pacific, formerly of
Saline county. was killed November p, 1856,
at Glenwood. Mo-, in a collision. HIS
widow immediately brought a suit for dam
ages for So 900. The company admitted the
facts, but claimed that he was not a passen-
ger and not entitled to any damages. Judge
Gill, in the circuit court at Kansas City, de-
cided that Col. McGufin had q right to be on
the train, and instructed a jury, recently, to
return a verdict of So 600 for the plaintiff.
The Richmond Coal Company has been
organized as q corporation. The following
gentlemen are stockholders in the company:
W. A. P. Mcdonald, 800 shares; Fl. NJ, Han
sen. 300 shares; Joseph s. Hughes. 150
shares: George A. Hughes. $50 shares; Jno.
Gibson, 100 shares. The st. Joseph Gazette
saws of the company:-"The three latter gen.
tIer,en have long been owners of the coal
mines at Richmond, and the new company
has purchased all the mines in that vicinity,
and it is the intention to mine and dispose OF
coal on a mammoth scale. Msssrs. Mcdonald
and Hansen of this city, it will be observed,
own q controlling interest in the concern.
which guarantees a capable management OF
the large business which the company will
no doubt enjoy"
Sedalia Democrat :-"Nearly three weeks
ago the Democrat announced that five proml'
0enL OFFICIALS u tuS hIisSUufl CIh
company had presented their res!enations.
Nc other paper contained the news. and it
was regarded as a grand scoop" for the
Democrat. General Superintendent Dicker-
son, IN an interview with a Kansas City
Times reporter. denied the truth OF the Dem
ocrats statement, and characterized IL as the
sheighth Of sensationalism.' Since the in
terview was published, two Of the gentlemen
referred to have retired, and Yesterday w
E. Gray was appointed superintendent of
Kansas CITY and Lexington division of thu
Missouri Pacific, with headquarters IN soda
lia, to succeed Howard +. Parke. Mr.. Gray 1
a railroad man of many years experience
He was a division superintendent on the Chi
csgo & Alton at one time, and has filled tn
~yosition OF train dispatcher for several mouth
in the office in this city. 1t is rumored tina
Mr.. Parke has been offered and accepted
another position, and that his headquarter
will continue in Sedalia. The 'heighth q
sensationaIism' theory has received Il back
SET"
Col. d. Reddington prints y notice of hi
wife's divorce proceedings from a hansa
City afternoon paper, somewhat similar I
those which were copied in the Intelligence
and tuen Odds this card, signed with his iu
name: -.The foregoing l clip from the Kan
sas City Evening News of The 9th, and is,
suppose. q correct abstract OF a petition i
that court; also is published in substance i
the Star. This is the first l have heard OF
divorce. As to the charges I can here onl
say, EACH and ALL are base falSehoods. TIL
ho-aal.aar1 Of C,oh alInoafinu,
uod6l1eend IL motive; but I will not de
kSYlst1tation or publishing fact
~ {<{&<e 5idence, and by it
will be atisf:ed5@ If the trni
shall be stated. xt2S1kAaxis for peopI
to suspend NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
court, which I ~2 Tbs
Judgment shall be II
evidence in court developest
q Just and proper thing to -
everybody is familiar with the VIC
that so often exists between allegation56y 36{
petitions and the facts. We trust, fof "a
sake of an editor grown gray in the harness
that the colonel will refute every charge mac
against him.
Corder-Mrs. Richard Barley returns
home from Kansas City, last SATURDAY, whe
she had been visiting relatives and altendir
the exposition. Mrs. Geo. Corder. accou
panied By her daughters. Misses BERTHE III
Bette, and Misses Anna Rees and Nam
AcMeekin, spent last Saturday in Hans
City attending TIE exposition. Mrs. Roth
IN Lexington this week. Miss Rebecca ely
who has been visiting Mrs. BoTtsfeld for Il
past month. left for her home at Montgom
nv City, Thursday morning. Mr.. Frai
Groves, of Kansas City, was here Sunda
Mrs. Roush, of Illinois. is here. She W
spend the winter with her daughter, Mrs. '
j. Lieser. Miss Lee Corder went to Kans
City Monday. Quite 4 number of new hous
are being built here this fall, among which
the parsonage OF The Methodist church. T
Presbyterisns received. last week. the bell (
their church. There will be Thanksgivi
services at the Methodist church, The oath,
IL a. m. Mrs. Boob, a former resident
this county, but now of California, was Wis
ing the family of her nephew, Mr.. VIM. "
son Of this place, last week. Mr.. Walt
Fleet, of Higginsyille, was here Monday.
is said that Mr.. J. P. Gordon will soon
our poslmaster. Mrs. A. Bortstield spe
several days in Slater this week with trient